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A new study, co-authored by Professor Dorian Fuller (UCL Institute of Archaeology), argues that the Anthropocene began with the rise of farming or even in Neolithic times, when we took to widespread burning of the bush to hunt animals. Read: New ScientistMore...

Professor John Dickie (UCL Italian) comments on a BBC documentary he presents about the Italian Mafia: "The mafia take their history very seriously. They’ve all got myths of how they were legends founded in the middle ages by Spanish knights." Watch: BBCRead: Scottish SunMore: BBCMore...

"I don't believe that access to the treatment is significantly different between classes in the UK, but it may be a combination of factors," said Dr Jayant Vaidya (UCL General Surgery). Read: Independent
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Government experts believe there is still a risk of people contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) through blood transfusions. "There needs to be blood testing to answer this question of prevalence properly,” said Professor John Collinge (UCL Neurodegenerative Diseases). Read: TelegraphMore...

Helen Lewis meets Gemma Angel (UCL History of art), a tattoo historian who has spent three years working with the macabre collection, consisting primarily of skin from “sailors, soldiers and criminals”, sold to the 19th-century collector Henry Wellcome. Read: New StatesmanMore...

A new generation of drugs promises diagnosis, monitoring, stealth, precision and cure – all in one package. "Doxil was a landmark in the field," says Professor Kostas Kostarelos (UCL Pharmaceutics). Read: New ScientistMore...